UN DESA | DPAD | Development Policy Analysis Division
Development Policy Seminars
This seminar series covers topical policy issues of interest to the development community. It brings in speakers both from the UN system and outside academics. The topics range from trade and industrial policies to income distribution to the management of financial markets. Any corresponding paper prepared by the speaker is also generally made available in an electronic format for download from this site.
Seminars are generally held on Wednesdays from 16:00 pm to 17:30 pm in conference room DC2-2330.
Recent Seminars: 2013
2012
- Development Policy Seminar Series "The World Economic and Social Survey: A reflective and selective energy discourse" presented by Prof. Mark Howells, Director of the Division of Energy Systems Analysis (KTH-dESA) at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. (10 December 2012)
- “Towards a sustainable social model: Implications for the post-2015 agenda” presented by Dr. Nazrul Islam, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, Development Strategy and Policy Analysis Unit/DPAD/DESA (6 December 2012)
- “The Millennium Institute’s Threshold 21 Model” presented by John D. Shilling (30 November 2012)
- "Desirable financial sector in developing countries, especially LICs, to serve the real economy, and not undermine it" presented by Prof. Stephany Griffith-Jones, Financial Markets Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University and Associate Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute(19 November 2012)
- "Policy Choices for Different Stages of the Demographic Transition" presented by Prof. Ronald Lee, Professor of Demography and the Jordan Family Professor of Economics; Director of the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging, University of California, Berkeley (8 November 2012)
- “Inequality, Instability and the Future of Finance” presented by Professor James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair of Government/ Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin, and professorship in Government (2 November 2012)
2011
- “Innovative Development Finance” presented by Dr. Dilip Ratha, Lead Economist and Manager of the Migration and Remittances Unit at the World Bank; CEO of Migrating out of Poverty Research Consortium; and a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex (26 October 2011)
- “Can fiscal union resolve the euro crisis?” presented by Prof. Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (25 October 2011)
- “Aid Securitization: beyond IFFlm” presented by Prof. Suhas L. Ketkar (19 October 2011) Presentation
- "Could the current crisis lead to a sustainable global golden age?" presented by Prof. Carlota Perez, Cambridge and Sussex Universities, United Kingdom and Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia (12 October 2011) Presentation
- "UN LDC IV: Framework Issues and Strategic Considerations" presented by Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Dhaka;former Ambassador of Bangladesh to WTO and UN Offices in Geneva; former Special Adviser on LDCs to Secretary General UNCTAD (22 March 2011) Presentation
- "Twenty-three things they don't tell you about capitalism" presented by Ha-Joon Chang, Reader, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge (21 March 2011)
- "Will the current boom in capital inflows to developing countries end in a bust?" presented by Yilmaz Akyuz, Special Economic Advisor, South Centre, Geneva; former Director, Globalization and Development Division, UNCTAD ( 1 March 2011)
- "Market access, Transparency and Fairness in Global Trade" presented by Willem van der Geest , International Trade Centre (ITC) (28 January 2011)
2010
- "Taxation, Development, and Globalization—What are the Issues?" presented by Michael Keen (29 October 2010)
- "Global Democracy for Sustaining Global Capitalism" presented by Dr. Jose Miguel Andreu and Dr. Rita Dulci Rahman (19 October 2010)
- "Gaps and Traps in De-regulating Finance in Emerging Economies: The Case of India" presented by Dr. Sunanda Sen (29 June 2010)
- "Are Trade Agreements an Obstacle to More Predictable Investment Flows to Developing Countries?" presented by Kevin P. Gallagher, Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University
(12 May 2010) - "Redesigning the Poverty Eradication Agenda" presented by Rehman Sobhan, Chairman, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Bangladesh. Chapter I (13 April 2010)
- "Diffusion of Activities" presented by Prabhat Patnaik, Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (06 April 2010)
- "Maynard's Revenge: Keynesianism and the Crisis", presented by Lance Taylor, Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development, New School for Social Research (11 March 2010)